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Brooke Singer
Paul Cunningham

artist statement | technical statement | process



process

SPv2 uses Java-based agents:
- to retrieve Brooke's email over POP3
- to retrieve weather information for a specified zip code
- to download web cam images from Brooke's studio and other sites
- to search the web for pages relating to "Brooke Singer"
- to crawl web search results and download GIF and JPEG images
- to convert all images into swf files for use by Macromedia Flash
- to retrieve a personÌs date of birth using specified name and zip code
- to retrieve census (lifestyle) information for a specified name and zip code
- to retrieve Google images for a specified name
- to periodically remove old Google images from the file system
- to report system errors and activity to Brooke via email
- to log user activity to the filesystem
- to serve flash content over http.